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Microsoft Woos Hobbyist Developers
News The "Spark Your Imagination" developer programme for hobbyists and academics was announced at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, on Tuesday. We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the...
[April 16, 2008, 16:20]
US Firms See Relaxation Of EU Privacy Laws Ahead
News This consultation took place on 30 September and 1 October and was attended by academics, business people and representatives from European governments and data protection authorities. After taking part in a conference that debated the EU Data...
[October 14, 2002, 16:04]
Start-up Breeds Better Chips
News Scientific advisors include other academics, such as Stanford University's Fabian Pease, an expert in integrated circuits who is also well-versed in how to obtain grants from the Department of Defense and its DARPA research wing, said Knapp.
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
Internet A 'moral-free Zone', Warns Media Chief
News All have been introduced by Democrats, and all have been criticised by computer scientists, programmers and academics. Speaking on Tuesday at an annual conference organised by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Peter Chernin decried the "enormous...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
Next-gen Bar Code Could Tag 'every Grain Of Rice'
News A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip the series of black vertical lines found on most merchandise.
[August 29, 2003, 16:40]
Sun Planning Java Improvements
News In 2003, Sun introduced the JRL which is meant to encourage Java research among academics. James Gosling, the chief technology officer at Sun's Developer Products group, is scheduled to discuss the company's Java licensing approach at a press...
[March 16, 2005, 11:45]
Wikipedia Vows To Improve Quality
News He said that the Wikimedia Foundation, which has launched several knowledge-sharing initiatives, is setting up a "quality initiative" and advisory board, which will include academics, to expand the foundation's operations.
[August 7, 2006, 9:20]
Patients Can 'opt Out' Of NHS IT System
News And he rejected calls by 23 leading academics for a review of the NPfIT's technical architecture, saying the programme's management and suppliers should be allowed to concentrate on implementation and "not be diverted by attending another review".
[October 31, 2006, 8:45]
Broadband Campaigners Demand More Govt Leadership
News We are talking to the industry, to consultants, to academics, to regulators and to our customers. Back in January, at an ABC conference, Timms said he was starting to consider the broadband roadmap towards 2010, and in a Broadband Stakeholder Group...
[April 8, 2004, 16:35]
Gates: We're Short Of Tech Talent
News Part of the problem, say both academics and Microsoft executives, is that the technology field just hasn't done a good job of positioning itself as hip and exciting. On Tuesday, the researchers on hand for the conference will have a chance to check...
[July 19, 2005, 14:55]
PC Industry Ridiculed By Academics And Researchers
News That's the gist of what academics and engineers told IT workers gathered here this week for the three-day Association for Computing Machinery conference. Computers are illogical machines in dire need of a total overhaul, and the information...
[March 14, 2001, 12:27]
Academics Meeting Granger To Discuss NHS IT
News The NHS IT director general Richard Granger has invited a group of dissident technology academics to a meeting on Thursday where he will reiterate his case for pressing forward with the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
[April 20, 2006, 11:15]
US Approves Billion-dollar Cybersecurity Bill
News Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), said spending tax money was necessary because "academics do follow the money. At a press conference after the vote, CSDRA's backers said the bill would help solve...
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
Telematics Left In Dot-com Dust
News Executives in industries ranging from academics to healthcare complain that the dot-com bubble perverted business models, particularly in areas where technology overlapped with other industries. Automobile executives who gathered last week for the...
[May 20, 2002, 12:32]
Experts: Copyright Law Hurts Technology
News Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution. Speaking Friday at a University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Humanity: Computing's Biggest Problem
News A team of computer scientists, academics and others gathered this week at IBM's Almaden Research Centre to swap ideas on how to understand better the ways in which humans interact with machines. We're in an age of new microscopes," said IBM's Dan...
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
Chris Patten: Politicians Have No Grasp Of Technology
News However, academics from the London School of Economics (LSE) criticised that ongoing governmental support. Patten, a former EU Commissioner, was speaking at the three-day conference in Nice, France, on European business and technology.
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
Hackers Making Napster 'irrelevant'
News Musicians and academics debated the right and wrong of sharing digital music on the Internet at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday. While both the panelists and the crowd decried the music industry's hold on artists and...
[July 17, 2000, 8:32]
British Library Calls For Digital Copyright Action
News If a library carried a printed journal, academics and students could photocopy it. In a manifesto launched on Monday at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, the Library warned that traditional copyright law needs to be extended to fully...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
HP, MIT Delve Deep With Digital Library
News Over time, academics and librarians will then have to go through the arduous process of determining what to keep and what to eliminate. MIT itself produces an estimated 10,000 pieces of digital content a year, a figure that includes conference...
[November 5, 2002, 8:28]
